"And now, the Northwest Army of China is growing at an astonishing speed, and the performance of their fighters has surpassed our Type 95 fighters, resulting in the Air Force, although relying on numbers to gain the upper hand, it has not been able to obtain air supremacy for a long time, nor can it provide sufficient fire support to the ground forces. In Langfang before, hundreds of sorties broke out in air battles several times, and the annihilation of the Mutian United this time is also a good example. ”

Kazuki Kiyoji is the head of the way and puts the trouble he encountered before directly on the table, after all, being put on an incompetent hat is not acceptable to everyone. Kiyoji Kazuki, as well as all the officers of the 1st Army, were unwilling to accept it.

"That's what I'm going to say." This time, Okabe Naosaburo did not refute the words of Kazuki Kiyoji to the surprise of others, but continued along with Kazuki Kiyoji, "The Empire does not know anything about the fact that the Shina Army is equipped with secret anti-tank weapons, and at the same time is equipped with excellent aircraft with performance no less than that of the Imperial fighters. What is even more worrying is that in the face of a strong enemy, there are still people who think that the Chinese army is vulnerable and vulnerable. The carelessness and negligence of some people may well lead directly to the defeat of a war, or even a battle! ”

"The territory of China is so vast, even if the base camp is mobilized this time, the troops that will arrive in North China to fight will be close to 400,000, and if necessary, it can even exceed this number. But in the north alone, the empire had to carry out operations in Suiyuan, Shanxi, and North China at the same time. At the same time, it is necessary to keep a large number of troops in order to keep the rear transportation unimpeded. According to the newly obtained information of the empire, the Northeast Army has been integrated, and the strength of the new Northwest Army of the Shaanxi Army is at least close to 700,000. Among them, the most elite Jiang Li headquarters of the Northwest Army. The number of troops is around 300,000. Even more than some, in this Pingjin Campaign, the Northeast Army of China, which has always been the weakest, also showed an extremely tenacious sense of operation. ”

"If you count the Jin army of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, the Lu army of Han Fuyu in Shandong, and the central army of Henan and northern Jin. Do you still think that the North China Front will be able to smoothly attack the whole of North China and Central China? ”

"Judging from the current situation, it can be preliminarily determined that the entire China is divided into a southern and northern war situation. The situation in the south will not be considered for the time being. The two largest enemy forces that our North China Front needs to deal with are the Northwest Army Group of China and the Jin Army Group of Yan Xishan. Among them, Yan Xishan's Jin Army Group has a strong sense of self-preservation, while the Northwest Army Group has a strong sense of counterattack and has an extremely detailed strategy. ”

"According to the information provided by various intelligence agencies during this time. Yan Xishan's Jin army deliberately narrowed the defensive line, and even transferred most of Suiyuan's troops back to Shanxi, its intention was already very obvious, and it wanted to do its best to ensure that Shanxi was not annexed by the empire. ”

"In contrast, the layout plan of the Northwest Army Group in China was much more aggressive. Up to now. The intelligence of the empire was more thorough to the Northeast Army, followed by the Shaanxi Army. Jiang Li's Northwest Army and the Red Army were rarely able to gather enough valuable information. According to the recent transfer of the Northeast Army. At this time, the Northwest Army Group had formally formed the Suiyuan Fifth Group Army, and at present, three divisions of the Northeast Army had been transferred and gradually moved to Suiyuan. With Jiang Li's usual style, the 5th Army is likely to have one or two divisions of Jiang Li's lineage. To deal with such a force, the empire's original Suiyuan battle plan may have to be slightly changed, the last Suiyuan defeat, and the current Tianjin China rebels' backlash tells us that those who defected to the empire's China, the Manchurian and Mongolian servant army is simply unreliable. ”

"In addition, the 6th Army in the northwest is also beginning to be formed at this time, and the following formation is at least three divisions of the Northeast Army and two divisions of the Northwest Army of the headquarters, with a certain number of artillery."

"At this time, under the auspices of the Northwest, taking advantage of the delay of the Pingjin Front, the people of China are evacuating personnel, some industrial machinery, cultural relics, food and other materials to the south on a large scale. And at the same time, on the Baoding-Cangzhou line and the Shijiazhuang-Hengshui line, a cascade-level defense began to be built. Unlike the hasty preparations for the Pingjin Campaign, although the China Army still did not mobilize enough materials, the cascade-level defense, as well as the 3rd Group Army of Yang Hucheng, which had begun to gradually move north, did not have much problem in initially completing the deployment of the two fronts before the end of the Pingjin Campaign. ”

At the same time, in the process of sending troops northward, the Northwest Army of China had begun to build a large number of fortifications in Henan, and they reached a certain degree of tacit understanding with Nanjing, advocating the use of the two lines of Baoding and Shijiazhuang to win enough time to build the Yellow River natural danger defense line. In the end, the mountainous terrain of southern Hebei, the relatively easy to defend and difficult to attack terrain of Shanxi, and the natural danger of the Yellow River were used to block our army in North China. ”

"At this time, the Northwest Army Group is also using a large number of local miscellaneous cards to drag down part of our army's strength, and at the same time concentrate its superior forces to inflict a large number of casualties on our army, so as to achieve the goal of consuming the vital strength of our army, and at the same time weaken the local powerful factions and clear the obstacles for their subsequent reunification of the north."

And the most worrying thing is that after Jiang Li retreated from Fengtian to the northwest, he brought all the machinery of the Fengtian Arsenal to the northwest, and successfully rebuilt it in Lanzhou, and then expanded production several times and introduced personnel, at this time a relatively complete military production system has been established, and even the northwest has a certain foundation for self-research and development of weapons, through cooperation with the Germans, the artillery produced by the northwest itself is not inferior to the empire in addition to the output is not inferior to the empire. And the production of its fighters has also been greatly strengthened, fortunately, it also has the weakness of a small production scale, but even so, it is enough to become the biggest stumbling block to the empire's occupation of China, and even the anti-tank weapons in the northwest are a big problem for the empire! Otherwise, at the current rate of attrition, two or three more large-scale battles will be fought, and the armored forces that the North China Front now has will probably be exhausted. At that time, the only way to charge into battle will be to use the flesh and blood of soldiers, and the attrition rate of Imperial soldiers will also increase exponentially, which is unacceptable to the Empire. ”

"In short, the northwest of China is now gradually consolidating the forces of the north and trying to construct the Yellow River defense line. Compared with the Chinese Army in Nanjing, the Northwest Army is more well-equipped, and also has a large number of air force and tank units with good combat effectiveness. In order to ensure the superiority of the North China Front, it was inevitable to ask the base camp for more planes and tanks to replenish it. It is also necessary to be prepared for a bitter battle with the Chinese army. Compared with the vast land and almost endless manpower of the Chinese Army, the strength of the North China Front was not sufficient. (To be continued.) )